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njs + QuickJS-NG on NGINX: real JavaScript in your web server, finally
Stock njs is an ES5.1 subset with selected ES6 bits and a wall behind every modern feature. Rebuild it against QuickJS-NG and you get a real ES2023 runtime inside NGINX — async/await, BigInt, Proxy, dynamic import(), modern regex, Intl, the lot. Here is what changes, how the build wires it together, and copy-paste examples.